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To promote Botswana culture, especially in the field of the visual and performing arts, and to develop it in partnership with other cultures for the purpose of their mutual enrichment and to increase international co-operation and understanding.

Objectives

to provide a focus for the co-ordinated development of the visual and performing arts in the following ways:

• by bringing together grass roots artists and arts groups, arts administrators, educators and potential donors to discuss existing problems and work out collaborative solutions;

• by providing a conduit through which requests for funding and other forms of support from artists and arts groups can be channelled to Govt and private sector sponsors;

• by keeping members and others involved in the arts up to date about arts events and opportunities, and establishing a database of arts teachers to whom people can be referred for lessons;

• by acting as a pressure group to encourage the Botswana Government in its efforts to introduce changes in procedure and policy to the benefit of arts development, and facilitating such changes through partnerships with the private sector;

• by establishing a National School of Arts.

Artist's impression of the School of Arts

PRESENTATION BY EU-FUNDED CONSULTANTS

MAHARAJA CONFERENCE CENTRE, GABORONE

30 JUNE

EU-funded consultants Jeremy Avis and Ruth Stewart made their joint presentation about the School of Arts and the direction they consider it should take.

Ruth Stewart had been investigating sources of funding for construction of the school and Jeremy Avis had been conducting a seven-week needs assessment, both within Botswana and in South Africa and Namibia, to inform the curriculum and structure of the school.

The presentation was received with great interest by an audience of more than seventy people, and the final report will be available from 20 July.

AGM minutes
Chair's report

STUDENT MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION INTRODUCED: ONLY P50 PER ANNUM

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Greetings cards (blank inside) for sale, designed by children from Thornhill Primary School. P30/pack of 6: order from BSA Secretary, tel 3952949/71862750 or email info@bsa.org.bw . Proceeds to the School of Arts Fund. Also available at Gallery Ann, Craft Centre, Broadhurst, Gaborone.

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